Tag: Watchdog

NY state overtime costs on pace for record high

David Klepper · August 26, 2014 8:17 pm

The U.S. Department of Labor spent $100,000 promoting a book club. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., wants to know more about it. (iStock)

Labor Department spends $100K on a book club

Kelly Cohen · August 26, 2014 6:03 pm

"There seems to be no limit on how low this administration and VA will stoop to deflect blame for a scandal," said Pete Hegseth, CEO of Concerned Veterans for America. (AP Photo)

Veterans’ advocate says VA tries to ‘whitewash’ Phoenix deaths

Mark Flatten · August 26, 2014 5:37 pm

New York man charged with stealing $25K from union

Washington Examiner · August 26, 2014 10:51 am

Officials say Kansas City plays a central role in a gang scheme that hires homeless people to cash counterfeit checks. (iStock Image)

Kansas City at center of Operation Homeless

Associated Press · August 25, 2014 1:05 pm

Federal subpoena sought email of ex-Pat Quinn advisers

Jason Keyser · August 23, 2014 8:23 pm

Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni and his wife, Majorie Roxby Mascheroni, were sentenced Wednesday for conspiring to violate the Atomic Energy Act by "communicating classified nuclear weapons data to a person believed to be a Venezuelan government official, and making false statements to the FBI," according to the U.S. Department of Justice. (AP Photos)

National Security

Los Alamos worker sentenced for trying to pass U.S. nuclear secrets to Venezuela

Kelly Cohen · August 23, 2014 10:00 am

3 Panhandle bankers get prison for fraud scheme

Washington Examiner · August 22, 2014 12:42 pm

Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., is retiring at the end of the year. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty images)

Jay Rockefeller doesn’t go to West Virginia, even when Congress takes a month-long recess in August

Luke Rosiak · August 22, 2014 9:00 am

Lucas Davis, who spend six years in the Army National Guard during the Vietnam era, found out in November that doctors could have seen warning signs of his leukemia six years before he was diagnosed. (Photo by Mark Black)

Missed leukemia diagnosis by Veterans Affairs leaves vet who put his trust in doctors living ‘day to day’

Mark Flatten · August 22, 2014 9:00 am

FILE - This August 2014 file photo provided by Eugene R. Fidell shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl preparing to be interviewed by Army investigators. The attorney for Bergdahl, who was held as a prisoner of war in Afghanistan for five years before his release, says the soldier wants to go to college once the investigation of how he was captured by the Taliban is finished. (AP Photo/Eugene R. Fidell, File) MANDATORY CREDIT

National Security

GAO: Pentagon violated law with Bergdahl swap

Donna Cassata · August 21, 2014 11:43 pm

Ford recalling more than 160,000 vehicles

Washington Examiner · August 21, 2014 8:07 pm